Explanatory notes for Act 3, Scene 2 From The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Ed. Israel Gollancz. New York: University Society.

54. bottom it:– “As you unwind her love from him, make me the bottom on which you wind it. A bottom is the housewife’s term for that upon which a ball of yarn or thread is wound. Thus in Grange’s Garden, 1557: –

“A bottom for your silk, it seems, My letters are become, Which, oft with winding off and on, Are wasted whole and some.”

88. inherit her:– To inherit is sometimes used by Shakespeare for to gain possession of, without any notion of inheritance. Milton, in Comus, has “disinherit Chaos,” meaning only to dispossess it.

93. To sort, to choose out.

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How to cite the explanatory notes: Shakespeare, William. The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Ed. Israel Gollancz. New York: University Society, 1901.